Training on writing proposals for winners of 2012 contest of letters of intent

On September 28 there was a training on writing proposals for the girls, authors of letters of intent, who received the majority of votes for ideas of improving life of local communities.

This year assessment of applications was conducted by the scheme new for First Step to Success Program: participants by themselves evaluated all applications and selected those ideas they thought the most useful and worth to be supported.

Girls noted that such assessment procedure is rather objective and supported this initiative.

13 applications were submitted to the competition of letters of intent (short description is given below), sevn of which were selected as the best ones.

The girls again came to Kyiv, this time as winners of the next program stage and this day was devoted to learning how to prepare and write project proposals to receive financing to implement their ideas.

The training consisted of both theoretical part and practical tasks, which helped master acquired information. Participants discussed serious issues, problems existing in communities, ways to solve them, practical work girls can do. And their talk was rather positive and useful, and each of them even had time to prepare «2 minutes' speech to Bill gates». Here is one of speeches.

«Dear Mr. Bill! You have to understand me better than anybody, as you built your business by creating informational systems for computers, systems that are a kind of live blood for their work.

I ask you to make donation for charitable project directed at saving human lives by donating this very blood. Blood that many people need. I know how to inform people about benefit of this deed, and what to do to attract their attention. If you support my idea, thousands of people will wish to save others.

I know, by that you can give life not only to computers» Rybalko Karina.

And though there were not many girls, the work appeared to be of high quality, informative and full of discussions. All girls returned home with notes, and some of them even with whole posters and results of their group work. As Ira Sokur wrote to answer the question «What information received during the training was the most useful for you: «The essence of making the project is that for me it is the first experience of independent social work. That's why I want greatly to achieve success and be useful for my community, as well as for the UWF».

Before October 20 the girls have to submit to the UWF completed application forms to receive financing, after that expert commission will select winner of mini-grants competition.

«I would like to wish for all participants to have much strength to overcome existing problems, enthusiasm, optimism, support from other organizations, sponsors and just friends» widhed Kateryna Dvoriadkina in the end of training.

Here is the whole list of submitted ideas: